HopefulBride Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 [quote name='InPersonaChriste' timestamp='1317393614' post='2312812'] Ive eaten grosser things. At least it was cooked eh? [/quote] Le big gasp. but yet I'm intrigued Like what? oh wait don't tell me yet, I'm going to lunch.
brandelynmarie Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 (edited) I've encountered dehydrated ladybugs in a school lunch salad one time. That was enough! Edited September 30, 2011 by brandelynmarie
OnlySunshine Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 [quote name='brandelynmarie' timestamp='1317421595' post='2313056'] I've encountered dehydrated ladybugs in a school lunch salad one time. That was enough! [/quote] Ew! That's disgusting and awful (since ladybugs are so cute).
faithcecelia Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 Cutting up used enveloped to make papers we could write notes to each other on. Fine in itself, but by nature of the card business we always had a steady supply of white notepaper from the bands they put around the cards at the printers.
OnlySunshine Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 [quote name='faithcecelia' timestamp='1317422794' post='2313075'] Cutting up used enveloped to make papers we could write notes to each other on. Fine in itself, but by nature of the card business we always had a steady supply of white notepaper from the bands they put around the cards at the printers. [/quote] Hehe, I used to cut up paper that was going to be thrown away at home if it had a blank backside. I would cut it into note sized pieces and put in in a memo container. It lasted at least a year.
Sarah147 Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 I write to a postulant of the FI's and she writes super tiny so as to save on paper. Eh, she's Franciscan!
HopefulBride Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 [quote name='brandelynmarie' timestamp='1317421595' post='2313056'] I've encountered dehydrated ladybugs in a school lunch salad one time. That was enough! [/quote] eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwww. Sooo glad I read this after lunch since I had a salad as my lunch.
Nunsense Posted October 1, 2011 Posted October 1, 2011 Some of the Carmels I was in used a little mesh bag to put their bath soap in when it got too small to use. The bag would be full of these little bits and pieces and hung over the water tap at the sink, and we used this for washing our hands. We were asked to use only cold water for handing washing, not only as a penance, but also as an economy.
Sister Marie Posted October 1, 2011 Posted October 1, 2011 ALERT... feminine products ahead... We have a whole closet full of feminine hygiene products down in our basement... and its not going anywhere fast... I'm the only sister young enough in this house to use them and I buy my own with my LMA... they look like they are from 1960... I'm afraid they won't work as well... I bring them to school and put them in the closet for emergency middle school situations, which there are a lot of...
Nunsense Posted October 1, 2011 Posted October 1, 2011 [quote name='Sister Marie' timestamp='1317439922' post='2313228'] ALERT... feminine products ahead... We have a whole closet full of feminine hygiene products down in our basement... and its not going anywhere fast... I'm the only sister young enough in this house to use them and I buy my own with my LMA... they look like they are from 1960... I'm afraid they won't work as well... I bring them to school and put them in the closet for emergency middle school situations, which there are a lot of... [/quote] Maybe they should get rid of them because some of the older products were susceptible to causing toxic shock syndrome because of their composition (what they were made of). good idea to keep buying your own!
brandelynmarie Posted October 1, 2011 Posted October 1, 2011 I'm thinking they would be good to use as temporary bandages, for head wounds or something.
MissScripture Posted October 1, 2011 Posted October 1, 2011 [quote name='faithcecelia' timestamp='1317422794' post='2313075'] Cutting up used enveloped to make papers we could write notes to each other on. Fine in itself, but by nature of the card business we always had a steady supply of white notepaper from the bands they put around the cards at the printers. [/quote] My grandma cuts off the blank parts of phone bills and other bills and uses those to write letters on. I think it started out as being economical (when you raise 8 kids on one person's salary, you learn to be thrifty) but now I think it's because she forgets where she put her nice stationary (because she has plenty, the aunts make sure of that), so this is just easier.
faithcecelia Posted October 1, 2011 Posted October 1, 2011 [quote name='nunsense' timestamp='1317440581' post='2313232'] Maybe they should get rid of them because some of the older products were susceptible to causing toxic shock syndrome because of their composition (what they were made of). good idea to keep buying your own! [/quote] Depending on what they are, I'd agree. External products will be fine, but even modern internal products are not sterile and if the box is open I'd throw them after a year or so.
Antigonos Posted October 1, 2011 Posted October 1, 2011 My mother always had a ball made of "pieces of string too small to use" but she never knotted the pieces together to make a piece that [i]was[/i] long enough... As for internal personal hygiene products, sterility isn't an issue because the place where they are put isn't sterile. However, if they are marked as having some fragrance added, I would discard them. That was what caused toxic shock. Old, thick, sanitary pads make excellent dusters and polishing cloths, btw.My mother always had a ball made of "pieces of string too small to use" but she never knotted the pieces together to make a piece that [i]was[/i] long enough... As for internal personal hygiene products, sterility isn't an issue because the place where they are put isn't sterile. However, if they are marked as having some fragrance added, I would discard them. That was what caused toxic shock. Old, thick, sanitary pads make excellent dusters and polishing cloths, btw.
Aya Sophia Posted October 1, 2011 Author Posted October 1, 2011 Some years ago I stayed in a guest house just outside the Vatican run by Francican Sisters. It was there that I saw for the first time the soap bag, a small bag made of netting with a drawstring at the top, filled with all those eeny weeny eensty teensy bits and shreds of soap that are too small to handle anymore but, gosh, are still perfectly good soap! I have seen other soap bags since then - the worst was (and probably still is) in a convent that shall remain nameless - a bag in which large scraps had gradually molded into a solid, pear-shaped mass that, for some reason was always slimy!
Nunsense Posted October 2, 2011 Posted October 2, 2011 In addition to washing the plastic wrap, some of the convents I have been in have washed their aluminium wrap... washing and drying and straightening it out until it fell apart!
faithcecelia Posted October 2, 2011 Posted October 2, 2011 [quote name='nunsense' timestamp='1317522066' post='2313635'] In addition to washing the plastic wrap, some of the convents I have been in have washed their aluminium wrap... washing and drying and straightening it out until it fell apart! [/quote] Yep, we did that too.
Lisa Posted October 2, 2011 Posted October 2, 2011 [quote name='nunsense' timestamp='1317522066' post='2313635'] In addition to washing the plastic wrap, some of the convents I have been in have washed their aluminium wrap... washing and drying and straightening it out until it fell apart! [/quote] My family does that
Nunsense Posted October 2, 2011 Posted October 2, 2011 [quote name='Lisa' timestamp='1317522305' post='2313639'] My family does that [/quote] Well now I do it, but I didn't before I went into the convent - so I have learned a lot of economising techniques! Plus, my recent living poor in the bush has helped to learn a lot more, especially with regard to energy - since I didn't have electric power the, I learned how many watts each appliance would draw, so that I could determine whether or the generator would power it. For example, I bought an 800 watt microwave because I had a 1000 watt generator, but it wouldn't work. I found out from other people that even though a microwave uses 800 watts to cook, it uses much more than that to start up!! I had to return the microwave to the store. I aslo couldn't use a haridryer as the lowest wattage I could find was 1200, or a heater or even a kettle! My toaster was only 800 watts and it worked because it didn't have the same starting usage that the mv had. It is fascinating to know just how much energy we use everyday. So economising isn't just about food or clothes!
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